Ecosystems | Waterscape can live only a very short time without air to breathe Water we need regularly while we can live for weeks without food if necessary Our bodies Continue reading Posted in Ecologia Nature Tagged Ecosystems Life Regeneration Storage Water use Leave a comment Find things Search for Upcoming Events Residential Permaculture Course Jan 2014 Modular Permaculture Course finishes Nov 2013 Farmhouse Kitchen October 2013 Sites Pages HOME ABOUT US BLOG

Life | Waterscape can live only a very short time without air to breathe Water we need regularly while we can live for weeks without food if necessary Our bodies Continue reading Posted in Ecologia Nature Tagged Ecosystems Life Regeneration Storage Water use Leave a comment Find things Search for Upcoming Events Residential Permaculture Course Jan 2014 Modular Permaculture Course finishes Nov 2013 Farmhouse Kitchen October 2013 Sites Pages HOME ABOUT US BLOG

Regeneration | Waterscape can live only a very short time without air to breathe Water we need regularly while we can live for weeks without food if necessary Our bodies Continue reading Posted in Ecologia Nature Tagged Ecosystems Life Regeneration Storage Water use Leave a comment Find things Search for Upcoming Events Residential Permaculture Course Jan 2014 Modular Permaculture Course finishes Nov 2013 Farmhouse Kitchen October 2013 Sites Pages HOME ABOUT US BLOG

Storage | Waterscape can live only a very short time without air to breathe Water we need regularly while we can live for weeks without food if necessary Our bodies Continue reading Posted in Ecologia Nature Tagged Ecosystems Life Regeneration Storage Water use Leave a comment Find things Search for Upcoming Events Residential Permaculture Course Jan 2014 Modular Permaculture Course finishes Nov 2013 Farmhouse Kitchen October 2013 Sites Pages HOME ABOUT US BLOG

Water use | Waterscape can live only a very short time without air to breathe Water we need regularly while we can live for weeks without food if necessary Our bodies Continue reading Posted in Ecologia Nature Tagged Ecosystems Life Regeneration Storage Water use Leave a comment Find things Search for Upcoming Events Residential Permaculture Course Jan 2014 Modular Permaculture Course finishes Nov 2013 Farmhouse Kitchen October 2013 Sites Pages HOME ABOUT US BLOG

MONEY – A Means of Exchange or Power? | Waterscape could be paid in these tokens as could other professionals who provided services valued within a given social group Over time money has taken on a life of its own but there has generally been some constraint on the issuing of money or loans When money as tokens notes or bookkeeping entries is backed by gold then the people who have gold resources are in a privileged position but the supply of money is limited by the amount of gold in circulation or stored in vaults Today there is no limit on the issuing of money and governments as low risk borrowers given their rights to raise taxes from their citizens can borrow more and more as treasury bonds without any direct constraint Over the last couple of hundred years in the capitalist world there has been an increasing privatisation of ownership and progressive extension of the market of monetary exchanges allowing money as capital to buy ownership and extract a surplus from more and more resources and services First land then water rights have been privatised and now air rights are to be privatised through carbon trading schemes Everything it seems has to be tradable and have a monetary value and if not then it has no value At the same time there has been first a separation of finance from entrepreneurship or company ownership with investment loans being provided at a fixed interest rate Then there has been a separation of ownership and managerial control in large shareholder companies or corporations The return to financiers arises from the interest payments they receive and they have no economic reason to be concerned about the nature or impacts of the activities of the companies they lend to Similarly shareholder returns arise from dividends and they invest for the highest possible dividend or monetary return They often have little say about company activities There is then a profound disconnect between both finance and shareholding owners and the activities of these economic organisations The quality of their goods and services and the social and environmental impacts are of no direct concern their only economic interest is the return on their monetary investment Money has become paramount and a commodity where money earns money The way to make money is through the mechanisms of money and ownership as unearned income Payments for the investment of past earnings or is it When a bank issues a loan it does not transfer the savings of other people into the loan account On the contrary it creates the loan out of thin air and then has the cheek to charge interest on that created money It s called fractional reserve banking which just means that the bank only has to have a fraction of the money it lends This loan then has to be repaid with interest which for longer term loans may be as much or even more than the original loan or principal Where does this extra money come from To obtain it further

Currency | Waterscape certainly like to get our hands on money as it is so useful for obtaining a vast array of goods and services without any other effort or contribution Continue reading Posted in Economia Money Tagged Community Currency Ownership Leave a comment Find things Search for Upcoming Events Residential Permaculture Course Jan 2014 Modular Permaculture Course finishes Nov 2013 Farmhouse Kitchen October 2013 Sites Pages HOME ABOUT US BLOG BOOKS CONTACT

Ownership | Waterscape certainly like to get our hands on money as it is so useful for obtaining a vast array of goods and services without any other effort or contribution Continue reading Posted in Economia Money Tagged Community Currency Ownership Leave a comment Find things Search for Upcoming Events Residential Permaculture Course Jan 2014 Modular Permaculture Course finishes Nov 2013 Farmhouse Kitchen October 2013 Sites Pages HOME ABOUT US BLOG BOOKS CONTACT